In “The Power of Self-Definition,” Patricia Hill Collins stresses that self-reliance, self-knowledge, and self-valuation are necessary to empower Black women to create their own self-definitions.
According to Patricia Hill Collins, what are “controlling images”?
Patricia Hill Collins defines “self-valuation” as:
When professor Asbell showed the class the spoken word poems by Bridget Gray, she said they were an example of:
According to Patricia Hill Collins, what was Billie Holiday’s purpose for singing “God Bless the Child”?
According to Patricia Hill Collins, constructing your own standards is important because: “the insistence on Black women’s self-definitions reframes the entire dialogue.” How is this dialogue reframed?
What is the definition of “rhetoric”?
Hip hop culture is an extension of the African American Oral Tradition.
According to Gwendolyn D. Pough, “bringing wreck” means:
According to Gwendolyn D. Pough’s “I Bring Wreck,” the rhetorical strategy of “bringing wreck” is used by Black female MCs to:
As discussed in lecture, Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.” is:
Why does Gwendolyn D. Pough compare Common’s “I Used to Love H.E.R.” with Erykah Badu’s “(Hip Hop) Love of My Life”?
In Patricia Hill Collins’ “The Power of Self-Definition,” the author explains that there are three “safe spaces” where Black women have been able to build a self-defined and collective standpoint. What are these three spaces?
Bringing wreck is a decided act, Gwendolyn Pough argues, not an unavoidable breaking point. The women of the Hip-Hop generation who enact rhetoric of wreck do so after a conscious decision to speak out. Why are they bringing wreck?
According to Gwendolyn Pough, Diva citizenship occurs when:
Gwendolyn Pough believes that having women’s voices represented via Hip-Hop in the larger